A year ago today, a challenge to continue trying to teach Micah 6:8 was set placed in my life.

A year ago today, I cried as I called my dad to tell him the news.

A year ago today, he yelled so loudly into the phone that my ears rang.

A year ago today, my journey took a bit of a different turn than I had anticipated.

A year ago today, that different turn shifted me towards new opportunities, new people, new experiences, and new friends.

And now, today, I wonder if I am matching who I was a year ago today. I hope that I am continuing to be challenged and moved and shifted from the ordinary path. It is easy for things to fade into the background of the routine and the busy-ness and the mundane aspects of life.

But a year ago today, I was challenged to not be ordinary for the sake of justice and good. So today, I will try to reflect on what this past year has meant for me and how each and every day from a year ago today needs to push in the direction of justice, mercy, love, kingdom-obedience. A year ago today changed me. So, I will continue to work to meet that challenge still today and the many more days to come.